Ubuntu
iputils package

Default packet size of tracepath makes Network Tools-Traceroute useless

Bug #586256 reported by David Clayton on 2010-05-27

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	iputils (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned
Nominated for Lucid by David Clayton

Bug Description

My System-Administration-Network Tools-Traceroute tool is basically useless as it cannot get past my router because of the default packet size set in the iputils-tracepath package.

I have done tests manually setting the packet size below 1497 and I get external traces, but the default setting seems to mean the UDP packets sent by this tool just cannot pass through my network (and others if some posts in the Ubuntu forums are to be believed).

Either the default needs to be set to a sensible value - what is the point of massive packet sizes just to trace a path? - or the user needs some method of setting this value via the gnome-nettool package.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: iputils-tracepath 3:20071127-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 27 19:33:37 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100308)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_AU.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: iputils